aspuru-list March 2008

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by Edward Farhi

Dear Quantum Lovers Today we will meet at 3:00 in the usual spot 6-310. Next week is Spring Break and we will not meet. Eddie :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Edward Farhi Professor of Physics Director Center for Theoretical Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology Building 6 Room 300 Cambridge MA 02139 617 253 4871 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Shaul Mukamel on Monday, 9.45-10.25

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group members, Shaul Mukamel, the one and only is here on Monday, I got a slot for the group from 9.45-10.25 on Monday, so please repond if you are interested in meeting him so Helen knows that there is at least one of you (I would imagine a few of you would like to do this) and I think you could meet him in the Div. Room? A. -- Alan Aspuru-Guzik Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology 12 Oxford Street Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: (617)384-8188 Group URL: http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] No group meeting at 4pm

by Alejandro Perdomo

Just a reminder that we won't have our regular group meeting at 4pm because of the poster session and G0- visit. We will resume next week with Ivan. -Alejandro

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Group meeting tomorrow 11.45-12.30 Naito 030

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group, Professor Toshikazu Takada will give a group meeting tomorrow at 11.45 in Naito 030. Short-notice but I hope you can come Alan -- Alan Aspuru-Guzik Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology 12 Oxford Street Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: (617)384-8188 Group URL: http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Friday Visit by Toshikazu Takada (Photosynthesis electronic structure calculations) Scheduling (ORPHA: To-do)

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Dear group, Dear Orpha, On Friday, we have the important visit of Professor Toshikazu Takada, from RIKEN. His expertise is on ab initio calculations of Photosynthesis. He will be the whole day with us, and we need to schedule meetings with him. I will pick him up at 9.30 at his hotel (Roberto and Professor Ju: I have to cancel my meeting with you guys, let's reschedule for later that day, how about at 11.00?, sorry about that). I propose the following schedule: 9:30-11.00 Alan 11.00-11.30 - Write -in 11.30-12.00 - Write -in 12.00-1.00 Lunch w/ 2 interested group members (Write-in two people) 1.00-1.30 Write-in 1.30-2.00 Write-in 2.00-2.30 Write-in If there are more interested members, we could have more meetings later in the afternoon. You can also meet with him in teams of 2 to talk for an hour. Thank you, and I think this will probably open the possiblity of collaborating wtih RIKEN on explicit QM-MM on reaction center or explicit calculation of excitonic states in presence of the protein environment. Alan Please e-mail orpha cc me with your choices for meeting wtih him. I would like for anybody interested in photosynthesis/energy transfer to meet with him to talk about their research and learn from his experience. I attach a very relevant paper for calculations on the reaction center. -- Alan Aspuru-Guzik Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology 12 Oxford Street Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: (617)384-8188 Group URL: http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] HUCE Weekly Calendar Update March 13 - 27

by Center for the Environment

Dear Friends of HUCE, Please be sure to check the HUCE calendar on our website, www.environment.harvard.edu, for the most up-to-date listings and complete event descriptions. If you would like to submit an event to the calendar, contact Lisa Matthews at the Center for the Environment: lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu. Feel free to distribute this email to your students, faculty, colleagues, and anyone else who may be interested in environmental events around the community. Highlights: Tuesday, March 18: As part of 'Green Week' at the Business School, Gary Hirschberg, CE-Yo of Stonyfield Farms, will speak about his new book, Stirring it Up: How to Make Money and Save the World. Hirschberg will discuss how companies, both small and largeor, in the case of Stonyfield, small bought by large (Danone)are able to turn environmental sustainability into profit. Thursday, March 20: Jeffrey A. Frankel, James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth, Harvard Kennedy School proposes a framework to extend the Kyoto targets into the future, get developing countries and the US on board, and minimize risk of high economic cost in the Regulation and Global Climate Change Seminar. Calendar Listings: Thursday 3/13/2008 6:00p - 7:00p Microbial Sciences Initiative Thursday Evening Seminar Series (HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA) "Tiny Cells, Global Impact: What Prochlorococcus can teach us about microbial systems" with Prof. Sallie W. Chisholm, Director, The Earth Systems Initiative, MIT. Contact: Christy Herren, herren(a)fas.harvard.edu, (617) 495 8643, www.msi.harvard.edu 6:00p HMNH: Evolution Matters Lecture Series (Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Maternal-Fetal Conflicts in Human Pregnancy" lecture by David Haig. Contact: 617-495-3045, www.hmnh.harvard.edu Friday 3/14/2008 11:00a Faculty Search Candidate Seminar: Earth History/Geobiology (Hoffman Faculty Lounge, 20 Oxford St., 4th Floor, Cambridge, MA) "A magnetic mystery: Transformation of the iron cycle under severe global warming in the initial Eocene" with Robert E. Kopp, Princeton University. Contact: Samantha Schwartz, schwartz(a)eps.harvard.edu, (617) 384-7242 4:00p Faculty Search Candidate Seminar: Earth History/Geobiology (Haller Hall, 24 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) "Tracing biological magnetism from microbes to sediments" with Robert E. Kopp, Princeton University. Contact: Samantha Schwartz, schwartz(a)eps.harvard.edu, (617) 384-7242 Monday 3/17/2008 12:00p - 1:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club (HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St. 3rd floor, Cambridge, MA) Visit http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/schedule.html for current topics of discussion. Contact: Kurt House, khouse(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html 12:00p - 2:00p Science, Technology, and Society Circle (124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106, Cambridege, MA) "Modes of Public Engagement in European S&T Governance" with R. P. Hagendijk (International School for Humanities and Social Sciences, Universiteit van Amsterdam). Contact: Sang-Hyun Kim, sang-hyun_kim(a)ksg.harvard.edu, www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts 3:30p Science, Engineering, and US Economic Progress Seminar (Harvard Hall 103, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) "Energy Policy" with Ernest Moniz, MIT. Contact: john_trumpbour(a)harvard.edu, (617) 495-9265, isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword... 4:00p Earth and Planetary Sciences Department Colloquia (Haller Hall, 24 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) Speaker: Bill Ellsworth, United States Geological Survey. Seminar titles are posted one week in advance of each talk. Contact: miller(a)eps.harvard.edu, www-eps.harvard.edu/seminars/epscollo... 4:00p OEB Faculty Search Candidate Seminar (Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge) "The fate of carbon in northern ecosystems in a warmer world" with Dr. Claudia Czimczik, Earth System Science University of California, Irvine. Contact: Katie Parodi, kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617-495-5891 4:15p Program on Evolutionary Dynamics Seminar Series (One Brattle Square, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA ) "Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: The Spread of Health Phenomena in Complex, Longitudinally Resolved Social Networks" with Professor Nicholas Christakis, Harvard Medical School Contact: (617) 496 4683, www.ped.fas.harvard.edu/events/seminar/ 7:00p Science on Screen: "Darwin's Nightmare" (Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St., Brookline, MA) With guest speaker: Les Kaufman, professor of biology in Boston Universitys Marine Program and a chief scientific adviser on the film. Contact: 617/734-2500, www.coolidge.org/science Tuesday 3/18/2008 9:30a Energy Technology Innovation Policy Seminar Series (Belfer Center Library (L-369), Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA) "Energy R&D and Policy: 'Embracing' Failure'" with speaker Jack Johnston, Planning Executive, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company (retired). Contact: Sam Milton, sam_milton(a)harvard.edu, www.energytechnologypolicy.org 11:30a Solid Earth Physics Seminar Series (Room 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) "A Micro-Scale Model of Pressure Solution Creep: Stress Transfer Within and Between Neighboring Grain Contacts" with speaker Yves Bernabe, MIT Contact: esag.harvard.edu/rice/SOLID.EARTH.SEM... 1:30p - 1:45p China Project Seminar (Pierce Hall 100F, 19 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Smart Growth with Chinese Characteristics: Transportation/Land Use Integration in Urban China" with Randall Crane, Professor of Urban Planning and Associate Director, Institute of Transportation Contact: Chris Nielsen , 617-496-2378 , chinaproject.harvard.edu/seminars/200... 3:00p - 4:30p Green Week Event: discussion with Gary Hirschberg (Aldrich [TBD], Harvard Business School, Allston, MA) Gary Hirschberg, CE-Yo of Stonyfield Farms, will speak about his new book, Stirring it Up: How to Make Money and Save the World. Contact: Michael Ellis 3:00p - 4:00p ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club (Geological Museum, Room 418, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) Visit the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics website for current speakers and topics of discussion. Contact: Italy Halevy , ihalevy(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars... 4:00p - 5:30p Politics of the Environment: IOP Study Group (IOP First Floor Conference Room, Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA ) Host: David Zwick, founder and former President of Clean Water Action Contact: jmckee(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.iop.harvard.edu/extcal/calendar.p... 4:00p Earth History and Paleobiology Seminar (Haller Hall, 24 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) Speaker: Dr. Brigitte Meyer-Berthaud, Botanique et Bioinformatique de l'Architecture des Plantes, Montpellier, France. "Arborescence strategies of early lignophyte trees and ferns" Contact: Phoebe Cohen, pacohen(a)fas.harvard.edu , www.eps.harvard.edu/seminars/ehapcoll... Wednesday 3/19/2008 4:00p - 5:30p Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy (Littauer-382, 79 JFK St., John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University) Speaker: Robert Hahn, AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies. The Evolving Role of Economic Analysis in Regulatory Decision Making Contact: Jennifer Shultis, jennifer_shultis(a)harvard.edu, 617-496-8054, isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword... 5:30p - 6:30p Green Week Event: consumer packaging trends (Aldrich 209, Harvard Business School, Allston, MA) Representatives of Clif Bar, Peak Organic Brewing Company, and Fiji Water will lead a discussion on opportunities and trends in consumer packaged goods. Contact: Michael Ellis Thursday 3/20/2008 11:15a Harvard Museum of Natural History New Exhibit Opening (Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) "Sea Creatures in Glass" Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617-495-3045, www.hmnh.harvard.edu/index.php 12:00p - 1:30p Regulation and Global Climate Change Seminar (Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building, 79 JFK St., Cambridge) "Youre Getting Warmer! The Kyoto Path" with Jeffrey A. Frankel, James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth, Harvard Kennedy School Contact: rpp(a)ksg.harvard.edu, 617.384.7325, www.ksg.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/rpp/contac... 4:00p - 5:00p Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series (Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) Speaker: Hanna Kokko, University of Helsinki, Finland. "Love and Hatred in a world of feedback" Host: Pierce Lab Contact: Deborah Smiley, dsmiley(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617-384-5062, www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/semin... 7:00p Center for Astrophysics Monthly Observatory Nights (Phillips Auditorium at the CfA, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA) "Science News: The Good, The Bad, and The Outrageous," with Dan Vergano, USA Today. Contact: pubaffairs(a)cfa.harvard.edu, (617) 495-7461, www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/mon.html Friday 3/21/2008 8:30a - 9:30a Microbial Sciences Friday Chalktalk (HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA) "The Methanoarchaea: Universal Concepts in Electron Transport" with Adam Guss, MSI Postdoctoral Fellow, OEB and HMS, Lory and Cavanaugh Lab. Contact: Christy Herren, herren(a)fas.harvard.edu, (617) 495 8643, www.msi.harvard.edu 9:00a - 6:00p Georeferencing Workshop (Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South Building, Concourse Level, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA) This free workshop is intended for Harvard faculty, student, staff and affiliates in all disciplines who are interested in assigning geographic location to digital information. Contact: www.gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keywor... Monday 3/24/2008 12:00p - 1:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club (HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St. 3rd floor, Cambridge, MA) Visit http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/schedule.html for current topics of discussion. Contact: Kurt House, khouse(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html Tuesday 3/25/2008 4:00p - 5:30p Politics of the Environment: IOP Study Group (IOP First Floor Conference Room, Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA ) Host: David Zwick, founder and former President of Clean Water Action Contact: jmckee(a)fas.harvard.edu, www.iop.harvard.edu/extcal/calendar.p... Thursday 3/27/2008 12:15p National Science Teacher's Association 56th National Conference on Science Education (Three Boston locations: Boston Marriott Copley Place, the Seaport Hotel, and the Westin Boston Waterfront ) "Science: Bridge to the Future" captures the intent of the planning committee to bring the very latest science content, research findings, and teaching techniques to classroom teachers. Contact: www.nsta.org/conferences/2008bos/ ================================================== Unsubscribe aspuru-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu from this list: http://list-manage.com/unsub.phtml?id=qzmd5cuymmc7GdW4SkES0 Our mailing address is: Harvard University Center for the Environment 24 Oxford St. 3rd floor Cambridge, MA 02138 Our telephone: (617) 495-0368 Forward this email to a friend: http://forward-to-friend.com/tell_friend.phtml?cid=qzmd5cuymm&f=1

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Second Joint Theory Group Meeting, Tuesday March 18, 2008

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

The next Joint Theory Group Meeting will be held Tuesday March 18 at 4 p.m. in Pfizer Lecture Hall, hosted by the Heller Group. Adam Wasserman will present a talk entitled "Quantum Chaos and Density Functional Theory". Thank you, Judy Judy Morrison Assistant to Professors Eugene Shakhnovich and Eric Heller Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University 12 Oxford St., M-108 Cambridge, MA 02138 phone: (617) 495-8733 fax: (617) 384-9228 email: morrison(a)chemistry.harvard.edu Judy Morrison Assistant to Professors Eugene Shakhnovich and Eric Heller Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University 12 Oxford St., M-108 Cambridge, MA 02138 phone: (617) 495-8733 fax: (617) 384-9228 email: morrison(a)chemistry.harvard.edu -- Alan Aspuru-Guzik Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology 12 Oxford Street Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: (617)384-8188 Group URL: http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] Digital Humanities Series Talk - David Germano

by Helene Tingle

Talk 7 in the Digital Humanities Series Talk Title: The Tibetan Himalayan Digital Library: Digital Humanities and New Approaches to Area Studies Speaker: David Germano, Associate Professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of Virginia When: Thursday, March 13, 2008; 4:00pm Where: Barker Center, Room 133 Abstract: How does digital technology enable new practices and visions in the humanities? What would happen if universities and colleges took to heart distributed knowledge production and publication in this context? What social reconfigurations of the Academy might be brought into being through use of such technologies? David Germano will discuss experiments relying upon texts, visualizations, spatial representations, audio-video, social networking and more in relation to Tibet as a base to discuss emergent answers to these questions in the field of digital humanities. _______________________________________________ iic-seminars mailing list iic-seminars(a)calists.harvard.edu http://calists.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iic-seminars

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] The Future of Energy - Today at 5:30 pm

by Center for the Environment

Finding a secure, safe and reliable source of energy to power world economic growth will be one of the great challenges of this century. The Harvard University Center for the Environment invites the Harvard community to take up the challenge by participating in this ongoing series of discussions. *THE FUTURE of ENERGY* ANNE LAUVERGEON CEO, Areva the worlds largest nuclear power company "Another Inconvenient Truth?" March 12, 2008 5:30 PM Harvard University Science Center Lecture Hall C One Oxford St., Cambridge, MA A graduate of the prestigious French engineering schools, the Ecole des Mines and the Ecole Normal Supérieure, Anne Lauvergeon has been Chief Executive Officer of Areva group, the worlds leader in nuclear power and the only company to cover all industrial activities in this field, since July 2001. With a degree in physics, Lauvergeon began her career in 1983 in the iron and steel industry before joining the CEA (Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, the public technological research organization in France), where she studied the problems of chemical safety in Europe. From 1985 to 1988, she supervised the underground utilities activities in and around Paris and was appointed, in 1988, Deputy Director of the General Mining Council. In 1990, she was named Advisor for Economic International Affairs at the French Presidency and Deputy Chief of its Staff in 1991. In March 1997, she joined Alcatel Telecom as Senior Executive Vice President and was appointed Member of the Executive Committee in July 1998. She was in charge of international organization and the Group's interests overseas in energy and nuclear fields. In 2006, Lauvergeon was ranked by the magazine Forbes as the eighth-most powerful woman in the world, second-most in Europe and most powerful in France. For more information about Areva, visit: areva.com/servlet/home-en.html The Future of Energy lecture series is sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment with generous support from Bank of America. This lecture is free and open to the public. See: http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=92536591 --- Contact: Lisa Matthews Events Coordinator Harvard University Center for the Environment 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu p. 617-495-8883 f. 617-496-0425 ================================================== Unsubscribe aspuru-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu from this list: http://list-manage.com/unsub.phtml?id=arDl03yHPUc7GdW4SkES0 Our mailing address is: Harvard University Center for the Environment 24 Oxford St. 3rd floor Cambridge, MA 02138 Our telephone: (617) 495-0368 Forward this email to a friend: http://forward-to-friend.com/tell_friend.phtml?cid=arDl03yHPU&f=1

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] IIC Seminar Reminder - David Hogg today - Making the Sky Searchable

by Helene Tingle

Initiative in Innovative Computing @ Harvard Seminar Series Wednesday, March 12, 2008; 4:00pm 60 Oxford Street, Room 330 David Hogg, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, New York University Seminar Title: Making the Sky Searchable Abstract: For the purposes of (a) restoring the meta-data of archived astronomical imaging data, (b) adding meta-data to amateur data and thereby bringing them into the professional domain, (c) relieving hardware and software projects from demanding astrometric requirements, and (d) making life better for observers, we have created a web service that automatically calibrates astronomical image coordinate systems. This system makes use *only* of the information in the image pixels, and needs no prior information about image pointing, rotation, or plate scale. I will demo the system, describe how it works, and summarize future plans for implementation, enhancement, and scientific discovery. Upcoming IIC Seminars: Continue to stay up to date with our IIC Seminar Schedule. Parking is available in the 52 Oxford Street Garage. Please tell the attendant that you are attending the IIC Seminar. _______________________________________________ iic-seminars mailing list iic-seminars(a)calists.harvard.edu http://calists.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iic-seminars

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